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The Lega­cy: Teach­ings for Life from the Great Lithuan­ian Rabbis
Berel Wein & Warren Goldstein
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Unclean Lips: Jews, Obscen­i­ty, and Amer­i­can Culture
Josh Lambert
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Lithuan­ian Yeshiv­as of the Nine­teenth Cen­tu­ry: Cre­at­ing a Tra­di­tion of Learning
Shaul Stampfer; Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz, trans.
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Hatemail: Anti-Semi­tism on Pic­ture Postcards
Salo Aizenberg; Michael Berenbaum, fwd.
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1929: Map­ping the Jew­ish World
Hasia R. Diner and Gennady Estraikh, eds.
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Jew­ish Poland Revis­it­ed: Her­itage Tourism in Unqui­et Places
Erica T. Lehrer
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Con­test­ed Land, Con­test­ed Mem­o­ry: Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghosts of Catastrophe
Jo Roberts
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Jew­ish Women in Enlight­en­ment Berlin
Natalie Naimark-Goldberg
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What’s New About Hanukkah?

Dianne Ash­ton is pro­fes­sor of reli­gion stud­ies and the for­mer direc­tor of Amer­i­can stud­ies at Rowan Uni­ver­si­ty. Her most recent book, Hanukkah in Amer­i­ca:…
Dianne Ash­ton
November 26, 2013
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Hanukkah in Amer­i­ca: A History
Dianne Ash­ton
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The Vil­lage
John Straus­baugh
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Jews in Berlin
Andreas Nachama, Julius H. Schoeps, and Hermann Simon
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Super Boys: The Amaz­ing Adven­tures of Jer­ry Siegel and Joe Shus­ter – The Cre­ators of Superman
Brad Ricca
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Bad Girls: Sirens, Jezebels, Mur­der­ess­es, Thieves, and Oth­er Female Villains
Jane Yolen & Heidi E. Y. Stemple; Rebecca Guay, illus.
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A Cul­tur­al His­to­ry of Jew­ish Dress
Eric Silverman
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Hunt for the Jews: Betray­al and Mur­der in Ger­man-Occu­pied Poland
Jan Grabowski
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